The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-04-21
FREE SPEECH ENDANGERED.

speech in America is interfered with by
the law, the class most Interested In
having free speech will have itself to
blamefor repressiye enactments. Inc
men who profit most by free speech are
the Socialists, Anarchists and heVoiu-
tionists, and they are the ones who are
doing their utmost to force the public /
TO shut their mouths. Herr Most, the
Nihilist. who was released from Black
wells Island the other, day, declared his
platform as followers to gang OF ap- /
pIauding ruifians, Revolutionists and
cut.throats who assembled to welcome
his return from his "martyrdom:
The Republicans of this country are put TO |
shame by the despots of Europe
An eouality is eS established IN American
prisons which is the equallty OF parpart En-:
/ say it in the face OF the authorizes Inat
they never dare to touch me again !hey
now do recognize the fact that single |
workman has dared to slap their faces;
am an Atheist, an Anarchist and II you
please Revolutionist, = ,;+o
1 will fight in spite OF the ponce, ~ t;II ,he
| of Recorder Smyth, and viii hg I'LL tne
| last drop OF blood in my BODY mas peeh
I repeat that I am a Socialist, Communist
Atheist and Anarchist. and will ag III uII
antly unfold the banner OF social reNoiu'
| ton.
There was a time in this country when
a man might shout himself blind ana
hoarse in expressions like the
above without causing the least
sensation or exciting any alarm.
The peaceful, law-abiding; patriotic
people were so overwhelmingly in the
/ majority that it mattered little to them
what the few ranters and reVolutlonists
said. But matters have changed
wonderfully within the past few years
In Chicago, a couple of weeks ago, the
men who would have applauded
Most's address had they heard it, cast
40 600 votes. Last November the same
element cast over 10000 votes in New
York City. This month they came
very close to the election OF their
municipal ticket in Milwaukee. They
are numerous and increasing in all OF
Our large cities, and are exercising an
Influence in the politics of the nation.
A few years ago it was the boast OF the
press that no amount of communlstic
harranguing could induce the people 10
abandon their good sense and cause
them to applaud the ideas and approve
the methods of the socialist revolu-
tionists. This can be said To-
day of the native citizens and OF the
better class of immigrants;'but 1t
must be borne in mind that there are
hundreds of thousands of people here
who are without respect for any form
of government; who have no reverence
Tor the free institutions of the Repub-
lie. and who hate laws which interfere
with the giving OF full rein to their
vicious natures and instincts. 1t used
to be said that society was in no danger
from the PRONUNCIATION of the hellish
: doctrines of the Communists and Social
= lists. for not even the American rabble
! could be converted to the belief thai
, mob rule would be preferable to stable
I government and the supremacy O.
law; but when the scoundrel Mos
I can go to Chicago and In
f spire enthusiasm in the hearts o
hundred thousand men and women
it is not well to settle back and smile
, in the belief that the good sense of TIT
+ people will save them from imbibiug hi
spirit.
1t is to be hoped that it will never b.
, deemed necessary in the United State
to enact laws for interfering with fire.
; speech, but it will certainly come t.
d that if socialism and anarchism con
!, tinue to grow and spread and shoy
n their teeth as they have done durin
q the past decade. The "good sense @
S the people cannot preserve peace an
y order in the face of constantly increas
ing audiences to listen to the incendlar
= speeches of such wretches as Most. TIL
n apprehension that laws for the sHppre:
v sion of free speech may be enacted,
v relieved of some of its ugliness by th
: consciousness that such laws will onl
re be applied to the fellows as to the ev
If and dangerous effect of whose uttel
% ances there can be no question.
T. rrrDr nc q hill IN, tho Viroipio 1ooiel,